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Rogene vs Rogue

American parents have registered 1,106 Rogues since 1880, against 811 Rogenes. Rogue is still ahead, with 50 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rogene against Rogue, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rogene Rogue

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 86 years in which either name was published, Rogene for 51 years and Rogue for 35 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Rogene Rogue
Total US births 8111,106
Most in one year 3190
Babies in 2025 under 550
Estimated living today 3301,100
Median age today 768
Peak year 19472017
Best rank 1,722nd girls2,903rd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked5,238th
First recorded 19151937
Girls / boys 806 / 5659 / 447

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Rogenes alive today are over 76; half the Rogues are over 8. That is 68 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Rogene and Rogue.